Cruz Was Asked To Apologize To Mitch McConnell – ‘Not Going to Happen’

Last summer, Senator Ted Cruz took to the Senate floor and proceeded to mop it up with the remains of Mitch McConnell’s integrity, blasting him for lying to the Senate and the American people by striking a backdoor deal with Democrats.

A brief background on that incident:

McConnell was the subject of Cruz’s ire for setting up a reauthorization bill for the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Cruz, like many conservatives, opposed the bank’s reauthorization.

Cruz asked McConnell if he had struck a deal for the vote with Democrats:

We had a Senate Republican lunch where I stood up and I asked the majority leader very directly, what was the deal that was just cut on [trade] legislation, and was there a deal for the Export-Import Bank? It was a direct question. I asked the majority leader in front of all the Republican senators. The majority leader was visibly angry with me that I would ask such a question, and the majority leader looked at me and said, “There is no deal, there is no deal, there is no deal.”

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